Originally Posted by
Silberfuchs
The "general feeling" is that using the name Myanmar is a tacit recognition of the illegal regime that currently controls the country
All governments of the world are illegitimate regimes with a
PR cloak of legitimacy. The whole 'democracy' thing is part of their public relations campaign to hoodwink everybody into believing they have a say in how things run. They are nothing more than mafia gangsta families who agree to recognise each other, or not, as the case may be. The UN is just the grand council of the thug.
Sure, you can participate in 'government' if you choose to bow low enough to the Don and abide by all of their rules. Who knows, if you drink enough Kool-aid you may eventually be top dog and call some of the shots.
That Burma has been ostracised for a few decades is merely part of the
PR in a "you lot should be grateful we're not as bad as those gangsters in Burma" kind of way.
If you think I'm a raving loon, watch the Godfather series and scale it up by a few orders of magnitude. Note how Michael Corleone craves to be made 'legitimate', but really can't manage to pull it off. Of course not, because he's wielding his power only by force and coercion - at least that's if 'promises' of protection in exchange for allegiance didn't work...
Once you realise that this is all government is, you might be inclined to change your strategy when dealing with it - preferably as little as possible.
But make sure you pay your protection money... (a.k.a tax)